Triple Arch (no.36 on plan), view from North. Digital image of D 59626 CN.

Description Triple Arch (no.36 on plan), view from North. Digital image of D 59626 CN.

Date 1/4/1999

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number SC 757607

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 59626 CN

Scope and Content Grimsthorpe façade from north, Drummond Castle, Perth & Kinross This shows the Grimsthorpe façade, an ornamental feature comprising a Classical archway flanked by niches and Doric columns. The white marble statues depict Pan, with his goat and pipes, or 'syrinx', (left), and a hunter and his hound, possibly Acteaon (right). The arch is sited between the formal gardens and the kitchen garden, and beyond the brick wall, allows a fine view of the avenue on the hill beyond through its central arch. The Grimsthorpe faþade dates from the late 18th century, and was brought to the castle in 1932 by the 2nd Earl of Ancaster from Grimsthorpe, Lincolnshire. It was placed here to provide a dramatic frontage to a feature known as the 'fountain grotto'. Drummond Castle was built c.1490, but the complex of buildings visible today consist of a gatehouse which was added in 1630-6 by architect John Mylne III (1611-67) and an L-plan mansion built for the 4th Earl of Perth in 1689. The mansion was extended in the 18th or early 19th century, and remodelled in Baronial style into its present form by architect G T Ewing in 1878 and 1900. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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